Winston Churchill

England
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
Politician / Statesman / Orator

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information
Too often the strong and silent man, is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion
There is no such thing as a good tax
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult
The price of greatness is responsibility
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